The British Model of Classical Education
The early missionaries to the British Isles brought not only Christianity, but also Western culture to the regions of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England. Early 5th Century missionaries like St. Patrick, St. Columba, St. Ninian, St. Kentigern, and St. David were responsible for establishing churches and monastic communities that provided opportunities for education through the Christian Church. These early monastic communities provided the infrastructure for what would become schools and libraries.
A Celtic scriptorium was a place within a monastery or other religious community where monks and scribes engaged...
English Bible Vernacular: From Church Latin to King James English
Today, the term “vernacular” implies the local language spoken by a particular people. For instance, English is the common language in the...
The Book of Common Prayer in Spanish
The earliest versions of the Anglican Prayerbook existed in French, German, Latin, and Spanish during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The “English” of the prayer...
Church of South India in the Bay Area
I had some friends from Kerala, India visit us at St. Paul’s Anglican Church Los Altos. They are part of Church of South India...
My Ancestry.com’s DNA Results
Studying my own ancestral origins has always been a fascinating endeavor. While both of my parents’ birth certificates indicate “white” as their ethnicity, their...
American and Anglican: Anglicanism as the Founding Faith of the Colonies and the American Republic
Did you know the first Communion service in the New World happened on the West Coast using the Anglican Book of Common Prayer? What...
American Anglicanism Began in California
The New World was discovered a short time before Dr. Martin Luther lit the spark which started the Reformation on the Continent. Following Columbus,...
Anglican Christians without Canterbury?
Dr. Charles Erlandson’s book, Orthodox Anglican Identity: The Quest for Unity in a Diverse Religious Tradition (Wipf and Stock: 2020) is a well thought...
How Benedictine Spirituality Came to Celtic Christianity and the English Church
The formalization of religious monasticism into the fabric of Christian identity coincided with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Historians mark the year 476...
The Optimistic Ebb and Flow of Moorman’s History
Dr. John R. H. Moorman’s book A History of the Church in England (A&C Black: 1953) outlines nearly two millennia of the Church’s history...
